7) Obsession or love? With Julide Sezer

In this episode of the Love & Literature podcast, host Melinda Karaca talks with Julide Sezer about Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence. This book has recently also been turned into a series. Julide Eda Sezer is an independent researcher who is interested in critical posthumanism, new materialism, decolonization, and postcolonialism, and explores the complex and intertwined relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. Her thesis, Sustaining Resistance, Cultivating Liberation: The Enduring Bond of Rooted-Resistance-Companionship between Palestinians and Olive Trees, which received the Hélène Phoa Gender Studies Research Thesis Prize in 2023, embodies these concerns. Beyond research, Sezer has extensive experience in project and conference management, and in facilitating interdisciplinary reading groups and collaborative initiatives that bring together feminist, ecological, and decolonial perspectives. These spaces foster intellectual companionship, critical reflection, and the cultivation of knowledge in relation rather than separation.One of these spaces includes her YouTube channel, on which she provides an intellectual and insightful platform to explore various themes. The name of the channel is Julide'nin oyun odasi. Thank you, Julide Sezer, and thank you for listening.